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Sep 16, 2024 | sdsu.edu | Susanne Bard |Susanne Clara BardMonday

SDSU undergraduate Yesenia Rodriguez Reyes tackles a biological mystery when nematodes turn up without their heads — and bacteria become the prime suspect. It seemed like a normal fall day in 2023 as participants in biologist Robert Luallen’s Host-Bacteria Interactions Workshop collected rotten kumquats from a tree on the San Diego State University campus. Back in the lab, they looked for tiny worms called nematodes within the decomposing fruit.